Conjunctive interpretation of disjunction

By Robert van Rooij. 2010

82 citations recorded by the source corpus.

In this extended commentary I discuss the problem of how to account for "conjunctive" readings of some sentences with embedded dis- junctions for globalist analyses of conversational implicatures. Following Franke (2010, 2009), I suggest that earlier proposals failed, because they did not take into account the interactive reasoning of what else the speaker could have said, and how else the hearer could have interpreted the (alternative) sentence(s). I show how Franke's idea relates to more traditional pragmatic interpretation strategies.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

• Children interpret disjunction as conjunction: Consequences for theories of implicature and child development (2016, unknown): “The possibility of embedded free choice is why we suspect we need exh to make sense of the child’s embedded conjunctive readings, though see van Rooij (2010) for suggestive remarks from a globalist perspective.”